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ÚLTIMA HORA: El Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la 🇺🇳 adopta resolución que crea un mecanismo internacional de rendición de cuentas para #Nicaragua. #HRC49

20 votos a favor, 7 en contra y 20 abstenciones.

Esta resolución es fundamental, por varias razones: 🧵
Crea un "Grupo de (3) expertos en derechos humanos" con el mandato de:

➡️ investigar graves violaciones de los DDHH desde 2018
➡️ identificar a perpetradores
➡️ preservar y recoger pruebas
➡️ brindar recomendaciones a #Nicaragua

Traducción no oficial: ishr.ch/wp-content/upl…
En su labor, el Grupo de Expertos en Derechos Humanos examinará:
➡️ causas estructurales de las violaciones
➡️ formas interseccionales de discriminación
➡️ dimensiones de género de las violaciones

Presentará un informe completo al Consejo de Derechos Humanos en marzo de 2023.
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BREAKING: 🇺🇳 Human Rights Council adopts resolution creating an international accountability mechanism on #Nicaragua. #HRC49

20 votes in favor, 7 against, and 20 abstentions.

This is a major development, for several reasons: 🧵
The resolution creates a 'Group of (three) Human Rights Experts' (GHRE) mandated to:
➡️ investigate serious human rights violations since 2018
➡️ identify perpetrators
➡️ preserve and collect evidence
➡️ provide recommendations to #Nicaragua
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Very importantly, in doing so, the Group of Human Rights Experts will look at:
➡️ structural causes of violations
➡️ intersectional forms of discrimination
➡️ gender dimensions of the violations

It will present a full report to the Human Rights Council in March 2023.
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JUST NOW: 🇺🇳 Human Rights Council starts consideration of draft resolution to create an international investigative and accountability mechanism on #Nicaragua.

Live updates 🧵
Chile presents the draft resolution on behalf of the 'core group' of States leading it. Chilean Ambassador highlights flagrant human rights violations in Nicaragua, persistent impunity, and the government's lack of cooperation with the UN.
Chile stresses that the resolution's recommendations will pave the way for better cooperation, improve democracy in Nicaragua.

Chilean Ambassador thanks the 45 States who have co-sponsored this resolution.
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🧵 My speech to @UN_HRC #HRC49 debate on 'Children in Armed Conflict', calling on @UNICEF & int'l community to stop abhorrent use of #ChildSoldiers by #Palestinian terror groups in Gaza.

With thanks to colleagues at @NGOmonitor, for allotting @The_ILF their time slot to present.
@UN_HRC @UNICEF @NGOmonitor @The_ILF The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, one of the great thought leaders of our time, once said “Tomorrow’s world is born in what we teach our children today.”

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Indeed, he was so right, especially as we look at the lives of children being ravaged in Ukraine now, as well as the Middle East, a region wrought with conflict & war for decades.

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LIVE - Tamil Guardian will be providing live coverage of the #HRC49 interactive dialogue on UN High Commissioner @mbachelet's report on Sri Lanka. Image
“The proposals to amend some provisions of the PTA, and to release some detainees under the Act are welcome initial steps. I encourage the government to take further steps to address the fundamental problems with the PTA” @mbachelet said in her written update. Image
She also urged the Sri Lankan government to "undertake the deeper legal institutional and security sector reforms that are critically needed to put an end to impunity and prevent any recurrence of past violations."
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As expected, the UN Human Rights Council (@UN_HRC) has established an international commission of inquiry for #Ukraine. The structure & mandate of the new body combines aspects typical of commissions of inquiry with elements of the new ‘investigatory mechanism’ model. #HRC49 1/11
By that I mean that the #Ukraine COI has a typical structure (a three-member panel) and a typical mandate: to investigate all violations and abuses of IHRL & IHL, to examine factual circumstances and the root causes of violations, and to recommend accountability measures. 2/11
But it also has elements of an ‘investigatory mechanism’ mandate: to collect, preserve, and analyse evidence with a view to supporting future criminal trials at domestic or international level (akin to the existing IIIM (Syria), IIMM (Myanmar) and @UNITAD_Iraq). 3/11
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#UkraineRussiaWar ⎮ Here's your roundup of #France's 🇫🇷 engagement and solidarity with #Ukraine 🇺🇦 on a national level, at the #UN 🇺🇳 and within the #EU 🇪🇺⤵️
@francediplo_EN @francediplo @Elysee @franceonu @EmmanuelMacron @Europe2022FR @EUintheUS @EU_Commission @EUCouncilPress @JY_LeDrian #Macron 🇫🇷⎮ "I spoke to Pres. #Putin this morning. He refuses to stop his attacks on #Ukraine at this point. It is vital to maintain dialogue to avoid human tragedy. I will continue my efforts and contacts. We must avoid the worst."
@francediplo_EN @francediplo @Elysee @franceonu @EmmanuelMacron @Europe2022FR @EUintheUS @EU_Commission @EUCouncilPress @JY_LeDrian #Macron 🇫🇷⎮ "Maintaining dialogue to protect the people, obtaining measures that will avoid human tragedy, putting an end to this war: this is the purpose of my commitment alongside Pres. #Zelensky and the international community. I am and will remain fully determined."
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What does #Russia in relation to #Ukraine have in common - from the perspective of (mis)application of international law - with #Israel in relation to #Palestine? The answer is the obscure 'Missing Reversioner Doctrine.' A thread: Image
In 1968, with the nascent #Israeli occupation of #Palestinian territory, Prof. Yehuda Blum penned the ‘The Missing Reversioner: Reflections on the Status of Judea and Samaria’. Blum argued that there were no reversionary rights of an ousted legitimate government to the territory Image
In other words, he concluded that ‘those rules of belligerent occupation directed to safeguarding that sovereign’s reversionary rights had no application to #Israel’s control of the #WestBank and #Gaza. Hence, Israeli possession comes from an absolute title, not an occupation.
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I am deeply honoured & grateful to have been appointed the @ICRC’s next Director of International Law, Policy & Humanitarian Diplomacy, effective 1 July 2022!
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After more than a decade in #academia, #government, #consultancy & #HumanRights advocacy, I look forward to returning to the @ICRC, an organization which was my professional home for many years, and whose values, principles & working methods I am profoundly committed to.
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In order to avoid any perceived conflict of interest or contradiction in terms of public positioning, advocacy or confidentiality, I will step down as #SRTorture @UN_SPExperts on 31 March 2022, after concluding any outstanding work & presenting my final report to #HRC49.
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